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Any more movies like these?

posted 16 years ago by winonaforever2
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Hi, I've seen this film many times and enjoyed it. It's one of my favourites and I remember having seen it the first time when I was around 12.
Are there any other films from that period that deal with similar topics? (white people trapped in the jungle,hidden treasures, lost tribes, etc)
I know of a few, but I want to know if you could come up with a few more.
Elephant Walk(1954) with Elizabeth Taylor and Peter Finch
The naked jungle(1954) with Charlton Heston adn Eleanor Parker
Mogambo(1953), with Clark Gable and Ava Gardner

I also heard of a Stewart Granger film called Green Fire, I'm not too sure about this one.

[–] Mrs_Phoenix 16 years ago

Umm.. not sure if this is what you had in mind but The African Queen with Humphrey Bogart & Katharine Hepburn immediately popped into my head. OH and King Kong I really enjoyed Peter Jackson's version.

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[–] winonaforever2 16 years ago

Haha, thanks, I've watched The African Queen, and I liked it but for some reason I don't associate it with the others, even though it's got many things in common. I love King Kong, both the original and the remake. It's like the mother of that sort of adventure movie. I know that they were a few more made after that, especially with the arrival of the Indiana Jones saga, but I referred more to classic movies made around the same time as King Solomon's mines.

[–] ami_fee68 16 years ago

Well, there's a modern movie (Sorry it's not classic) that takes place during WWII, but it has that "getting used to living in Africa" / "gaining respect for a culture you used to consider primitive" kind of theme. It's a German movie called "Nowhere in Africa" (Nirgendwo in Afrika). No hidden treasure, and rather intense characters, but still an excellent movie and it won the Foreign Language Film Oscar.

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[–] winonaforever2 16 years ago

Thanks, I have also watched that one. it's not an adventure movie. It reminded me of Out of Africa, with Meryl Streep and Robert Redford. King Solomon's mines has been made a few times. There's one made in the 1930s I haven't seen, and then there's the rather cheesy version of 1983 with Sharon Stone which looks like a spoof of Indiana Jones and then the TV miniseries made in 2004 with Patrick Swayze which wasn't very good either.

[–] ami_fee68 16 years ago

I tried to watch Out of Africa on TV once, but found it boring. I haven't seen the 1930's KSM, and though I'm curious about that one, I refuse to see the modern versions because I can only imagine that they are horribly dreadful and fake. What I love so much about KSM is the authenticity of it.

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[–] winonaforever2 16 years ago

Sharon Stone was hot in one of the adaptations though. I found the 1984 version funny. It wasn't supposed to be taken seriously, it was a sort of parody of Riders of the Lost Ark. They even made a sequel the year later called Alan Quatermain and the Lost city of gold or something like that, which was worse than the first one. Of course none of them compares to the 1950 version. But this thread was about old adventure films. Any other ideas?

[–] 42ndStreetMemories 16 years ago

Try Trader Horn which is very similar but the early version, that I'm familar with, is B&W from 1931. If that's not a problem, try it.

[–] kcflood 15 years ago

How about The Naked Prey with Cornel Wilde. Very good adventure movie made in 1966.

[–] ChicagoToffee 15 years ago

I'm a big fan of The Naked Prey as well.

[–] IwasSquidly 16 years ago

Try "The Naked Prey" with Cornel Wilde but no female lead.

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[–] joang863 15 years ago

There was "White Witch Doctor" with Susan Hayward and Robert Mitchum (1953). "Green Fire" starred Grace Kelly with Granger and Paul Douglas. About a lost Conquistadores emerald mine in South America. The best thing about Green Fire (1954)is the wonderful music by Miklos Rozsa.

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[–] gary_overman 15 years ago

This is an oldie, and it doesn't deal with Africa, but there is a 1934 movie with Clyde Beatty, a famous lion tamer, called The Lost Jungle that I thought was fairly good.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025421/

There is even a link so that you can watch the movie if you want.

[–] bradford-1 14 years ago

KING SOLOMON'S MINES (1937) With Paul Robeson as Umbopa and Cedric Hardwicke as Quartermain, so obviously neither one is the romantic lead. Best thing is hearing Robeson sing in a tribal language.
SANDERS OF THE RIVER (1935) even more of a "white man's burden" flick with Robeson, Nina Mae McKinney (an unlikely African maiden if ever there was one) and Leslie Banks. If you look fast, you can even see Jomo Kenyatta, later the leader of the Mau Maus, in a small role!
MEN OF TWO WORLDS (1946) w/Robert Adams, Eric Portman, Orlando Martins and Phyllis Calvert. Outlandish British film that focuses on an African concert pianist who returns to his tribe from England and gets involved with white politicos and native medicine men.

[–] onsafari 13 years ago

Others not mentioned:

Snows of Kilimanjaro
Legend of the Lost
The Last Safari
The Lion
Born Free
Mountains of the Moon
White Hunter Black Heart
A Far Off Place
The English Patient
The Ghost and the Darkness

[–] jetlag31 12 years ago

<<Are there any other films from that period that deal with similar topics? (white people trapped in the jungle,hidden treasures, lost tribes, etc)>>

There are lots of them. Think of all the Tarzan and Jungle Jim movies, amongst others. However, until this movie they were all filmed on studio back lots back in Hollywood.

If however you mean Hollywood movies filmed in Africa then the 1962 John Wayne film "Hatari" was good fun.

BTW, "The Naked Jungle" is set in South America, not Africa, albeit it does have jungles. :-)

"Green Fire" is apparently set there as well. See:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047050/

[–] SeanJoyce 12 years ago

King Kong (like, duh?)

Treasure of the Golden Condor

Plunder of the Sun

Secret of the Incas

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[–] mlaiuppa 11 years ago

If you like animals you may or may not like Hatari with John Wayne and Red buttons. They trap animals for zoos. It has it's comic elements. And the score by Henry Mancini is first rate. This is where his instrumental Baby Elephant Walk comes from.

[–] carsal7 10 years ago

"Green Dolphin Street" is a masterpiece and award winner. This classic has Lana Turner, Van Heflin, Donna Reed, Richard Hart, and so many more! What an adventure! One of my all-time favorites.

[–] PeterBlues 9 years ago

for years i was only common with the 1988 movie with a similar title suggesting its some kind of sequel to this i guess? the male leading role in this movie looks like chevy chase. i thought this seemed alot like watching the national geographic channel showing nature footage and giving information and honestly found the 1988 flick a blast compared to this, and cassandra peterson (elvira mistress of the dark) was something else at her last scene of that movie. i saw this on tcm along with similar "mogambo", this seemed technically better shot, but be ready for some animal harm scenes.

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